Post by Logan on Jun 4, 2016 1:31:09 GMT -6
Amid secrecy, UK pays $5 million to fix billing issues at Hazard clinic
The University of Kentucky has spent more than $5 million in the last year to fix federal billing issues involving a Hazard cardiology practice it acquired three years ago, but UK officials have declined to provide documents detailing problems that led to the payments.
In 2013, UK HealthCare spent $440,000 for the office equipment of Appalachian Heart Center and rented its clinic space in Hazard, Harlan and Hyden. The four physicians of the practice also became adjunct faculty at UK.
But in the past year, UK HealthCare and its billing arm, the Kentucky Medical Services Foundation, have paid $4.1 million to Medicaid and Medicare, and $1 million to David Douglass, a Washington D.C. lawyer who specializes in federal health care issues, to resolve billing issues involving the Hazard cardiology practice.
The cardiologists at the Appalachian Heart Center have since separated themselves from UK and gone back into private practice. The clinic’s senior doctor, Vidya Yalamanchi, did not return calls seeking comment.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article81581847.html
The University of Kentucky has spent more than $5 million in the last year to fix federal billing issues involving a Hazard cardiology practice it acquired three years ago, but UK officials have declined to provide documents detailing problems that led to the payments.
In 2013, UK HealthCare spent $440,000 for the office equipment of Appalachian Heart Center and rented its clinic space in Hazard, Harlan and Hyden. The four physicians of the practice also became adjunct faculty at UK.
But in the past year, UK HealthCare and its billing arm, the Kentucky Medical Services Foundation, have paid $4.1 million to Medicaid and Medicare, and $1 million to David Douglass, a Washington D.C. lawyer who specializes in federal health care issues, to resolve billing issues involving the Hazard cardiology practice.
The cardiologists at the Appalachian Heart Center have since separated themselves from UK and gone back into private practice. The clinic’s senior doctor, Vidya Yalamanchi, did not return calls seeking comment.
Read more here: www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article81581847.html